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These results suggest that certain, facially race neutral, concerns raised by residents may be driven or influenced by racial animus.

Substantively, this study provides the first causally identified evidence of which I am aware that racial bias and worries about non-White neighbors moving in remain motivations for opposing new housing for a non-trivial share of White Americans.

The list experiment on the other hand, is well adapted to identifying whether a certain attitude exists at all.

Methodologically, this suggests that researchers should think twice about using factorial or conjoint designs for uncovering bias. Factorial and conjoint experiments are not designed to uncover sensitive attitudes, and can *only* show evidence of those attitudes if those attitudes win out.

Using a multi-experiment design, I show that factorial experiments may fail to uncover racial bias, but a list experiment finds evidence of significant racial bias as a motivator against new housing construction.

I investigate this in the context of opposition to new housing development in the respondent's neighborhoods.

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New paper in @psrm.bsky.social How we measure racial bias is important, but there is no clear agreement (rather a lively methodological debate) among political scientists about the best way to do so.

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Made empanadas tonight for the first time. Frankly, kinda crushed it. Best outcome I've had for a first cut at a recipe in a while.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It is SO much worse. Like, not to gas myself up too much, but I think I am a pretty good teacher and whenever I have to teach online I'm like "wow I suck at this"

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Spoke too soon. 4-1 win comfier. NLCS bound baby.

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There must be some kind of unwritten rule I'm not aware of that says the dodgers aren't allowed to have a comfortable win in a postseason game. Christ on a cracker this team is going to be the end of me.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wouldn't be a US-Mexico game without a red card now would it?

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Super cool how everyone is insane now

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Obviously the question of non-citizen voting in local elections is a thorny one, but these are people who, in a lot of ways, are bearing the brunt of the housing shortage, but who, in most cases, have genuinely no way to express their preference for more housing electorally.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somewhat crazy crosstab from a 2025 PPIC survey. Very substantial majority of Californians support building more apartments, 72% overall, but the percentage of noncitizens that support more housing is 92%!!!

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@nickandert.bsky.social continues to be one of the best resources for transit information in the state. Incredible, wide ranging video. youtu.be/uYwInrTocww?...

youtu.be

California's Brilliant State Rail Plan

YouTube video by nandert

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some of these standing in for franchises more generally. I spent a significant amount of time in front of Civ III, *especially* the expansions.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching Ghostbusters for the first time in a long time and man, this movie is great, but it is also *so* insanely an 80s movie. Having the secondary antagonist be an agent from the EPA is an insane choice 💀

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I generally find horserace coverage to be of limited utility at best, but man those unfavorables are killer.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These are terrible numbers for Bass jeeeez

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Love Jon Jon's stuff. Always so cool and interesting.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading some Econ lit as I consider a new project and jeez man, we gotta get these guys to redesign their tables so they fit on one page and don't require landscape orientation. This is the 21st century surely we can achieve this.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

www.politico.com/news/2026/09... Bass advisors more or less admitting that she can't win if she tries to run on her record as mayor.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The days I have time to go on a morning run are so much better than the days I don't. This relationship is clearly causal and I will not be taking questions at this time.

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

JD Vance going with the "bad boyfriend who doesn't want to get broken up with" pitch the midterms I see

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I also think they still don't realize *why* they are losing the base. People increasingly see DSA and adjacent progressives as the only folks offering an actual vision. Establishment democrats can't seem to figure out what they actually want to *do* with the power of the state.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can't wait to see what shenanigans River and the gang get up to this season

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Will be reading this as affirmation of my belief that these attitudes are a skill issue.

Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trump may just be the most petulant person in the country. "If I can't have it then no one can" shit from his hand picked board here.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My wife turned to me with a flabbergasted look on her face like "why haven't you been making this the whole time??" so now I think I'm contractually obligated to make it significantly more often.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Made pizzas this afternoon which required prepping the dough yesterday for a 24 slow rise in the fridge and I regret to inform everyone that they really were significantly better than my regular one hour pizza dough.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A feature of being a Manchester United fan on the west coast is that your whole Sunday is regularly ruined by 10:30 in the morning.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So true the Boston airport employees lack the skills that all other airport employees have. Skills such as long term planning and forethought

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

To top it all off, the airport bar just gave me a fridge cold glass of red wine.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My flight INTO Boston was delayed, now my flight is delayed OUT OF Boston, much more severely. This is evidently due to pre-planned runway work, which you would think they could have planned around. I will now be getting home at ~4am. I now have a personal vendetta against Boston Logan Airport.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Overall vibe for sure, but also more specifically, the stairs into the cars?? The fact that it splits up into 4 (!!!) lines at all? Some of the western stations have the thinnest platforms I have ever seen?